I won't add my condemn to your condemn XIV
It doesn’t seem like all that long ago, but it’s been half a month since we had a good condemn. Although there’s been a bit of condemnation about the Lympics. So it must be time again to condemn. Here’s a [...]
7's lies, damned lies and medal counts
One of the things that has given me the $hit$ watching Channel 7s coverage of the Olympics is the adjusted medal count; this thrown up when the “real” medal count doesn’t appear to meet early morning breakfast expectations. In Mel [...]
Here – have at least one image of female Olympians that isn't focussed on T&A
USA’s Sada Jacobson (R) competes against France’s Leonore Perrus during the women’s team sabre bronze medal match France vs. USA on August 14, 2008 at the Fencing Hall of National Convention center, as part of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. [...]
The Olympics and workplace productivity
I noticed yesterday that Griffith Uni has provided a plasma screen in the library window for students and staff to watch the Olympics, but when I questioned both my Griffith students and later on my ACU students, most said they [...]
Right to privacy or right to profit from celebrity trash "news"?
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/stephanie-rice-3.JPG" align=left There was some interesting discussion here at LP recently on this thread about the right to free speech, which I think took far too narrowly American and thus falsely universal a view. In the common law tradition [...]
China's pollution goes global
We’ll be seeing plenty of China on our TV screens in the next little while, as long they don’t give us too many long shots. No matter how spectacular the Olympic opening ceremony, if we can see it, I think [...]
Olympics preview
And it’s going to be “gold, gold to Australia, gold” quite a lot at the Beijing Games, if the predictions of US sports magazine (and annual cheesecake purveyor) Sports Illustrated hold up. They’re predicting 22 gold medals for Australia, five [...]
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